Along the route Samson starts getting threatening letters telling him to leave things alone, and someone takes a pot shot at him and Delilah.

Delilah also runs the Dales Dating Agency and has an apparently hopeless case - old, set in his ways, dirty and smelly farmer Clive Knowes wants her to find him a wife. Rick Procter, a local property developer (and much worse) swindled Samson's dad Joseph out of the family Twistleton Farm - Rick is now running a cannabis farm there. The pair have become embroiled in several cases that put them smack bang in the path of danger and in a ‘will-they, won’t-they’ relationship.

Samson's pensioner dad Joseph lost the family farm to local baddie Rick Procter, and is now living at Fellside Court with lots of friends, all anxious to "help" Samson with a bit of amateur detecting. The mother of Stuart, the young estate agent, is convinced: her son is not on vacation as everyone thinks, but has disappeared! But with Samson O'Brien still in London helping the Met Police clear his name, and the newly appointed member of the investigations team, Ida Capstick, distracted by her brother George's insistence that their farm is haunted, Delilah Metcalfe is struggling to meet the mounting demands for the agency's services. Julia Chapman's fourth Dales Detective Agency novel following Date with Mystery - A teenager has gone missing from Bruncliffe, can Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe find him?

Has he at last chosen Bruncliffe over London, but might he end up in jail for not defending himself against the charges against him ?In the eighth novel in the Dales Detective series, Date with Evil , Samson and Delilah are about to discover that all of their new cases may be connected to a network of evil that seems to be surrounding Bruncliffe. I have grown very fond of the cast of characters and the well-described locations and had been eagerly awaiting this episode. I’m so happy I got into these cozy mysteries, they are delightful and the character development is spot on!